by GDI | Feb 5, 2025 | Comment
By Epiphania Kimaro Doing my PhD at the Global Development Institute gave me invaluable skills and opportunities, including the post-PhD research dissemination fund award. This award was an opportunity but also a challenge to share my research findings with...
by GDI | Jan 31, 2025 | Comment
By Richard Heeks When it comes to tackling real-world problems, researchers often find themselves choosing between two big philosophical approaches: positivism, which focuses on hard facts and objectivity, and constructivism, which highlights how people shape their...
by GDI | Jan 29, 2025 | Comment
In late 2024, community reporters from the Social Homes for Manchester coalition began filming with production company On Our Radar to create a documentary exposing the crisis in social rent housing in the city of Manchester and highlighting their role establishing a...
by GDI | Jan 23, 2025 | Comment
We are delighted that the British Academy International Fellowships 2025 are now open for applications. The University of Manchester is especially keen to sponsor applicants from the global South. The programme provides support for outstanding early career...
by GDI | Jan 22, 2025 | Comment
by Mahtab Uddin, PhD candidate, GDI, University of Manchester In 1954, Arthur Lewis published a paper that set out his famous Dualistic Development Model, arguing that developing economies could foster capitalist growth by employing surplus labour from the subsistence...
by GDI | Jan 15, 2025 | Comment
The Development Studies Association (DSA) is currently accepting paper proposals for its upcoming annual conference. Taking place at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath as a hybrid event between 25th and 27th June 2025, this year’s conference theme...
by GDI | Jan 9, 2025 | Comment
By Louisa Hann It’s the beginning of a new year – a time when many of us are looking to the future. Whether you’re trying to stick to a resolution or counting down the days until spring, January is often charged with a combination of renewal, resolve, and trepidation....
by GDI | Jan 8, 2025 | Comment
by Dr Gindo Tampubolon (Reader in Global Health, GDI) and Dr Elia Maggang (Honorary Fellow, Lincoln Theological Institute) This year marks the mid-point of the decade and the global health initiative known as the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing. Led by the World Health...
by GDI | Dec 18, 2024 | Comment
By Diana Mitlin A recent conference on African Urbanism has provided a useful space for me to reflect on what the African experience has brought to my work and that of my colleagues. This has included academic scholarship, professional and policy engagement and...
by GDI | Dec 3, 2024 | Comment
By academic staff members of the Manchester- Melbourne Masters in Leadership in Development The leadership deficit in development research and practice The development sector is a unique field that aims to facilitate social, cultural, environmental, economic, legal,...
